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December 1, 2025
David Bartha
Andrew Baxter is a generally overlooked philosopher of the first half of the eighteenth century, known almost exclusively for his critique of Berkeleyan idealism. In this paper, I show that he was much more than just a critic of his immediate predecessors, by setting out his undeservedly ignored theory of dreaming and demonstrating its depth, originality as well as its potential to challenge...
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January 24, 2021
Giancarlo Grossi
This article examines the narrative identity of a new emerging medium, the virtual reality installation. In order to do so, the representation of dream states often presented in virtual art will be considered as a metareflexive model to be analysed in order to comprehend the distinctive characteristics of this experience. From this point of view, the study distinguishes virtual from physical...
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July 30, 2018
A. Ceciliani
The phenomenological pedagogy has always been focused its attention to the centrality of the subject, on his concrete experience and on the related embodied aspects referred to the consciousness and awareness of the body and action. According with the Embodied Cognition theory, phenomenology is outlining a pedagogical framework defined as Embodied Education. Within this pedagogical approach,...
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June 1, 2018
Mattia Petricola
This study represents as an attempt to make sense of a rather curious coincidence. In Philip K. Dick's novel A scanner darkly (1973-1977), a character named Tony Amsterdam experiences a mystical vision after an acid trip. God appears to him in the form of «showers of colored sparks, like when something goes wrong with your TV set». In the same year 1973, a young Bill Viola creates Information,...
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February 27, 2018
Teresa Rutigliano
Neuroscience is a highly multidisciplinary and rapidly evolving research field. An important recent challenge of this discipline is the investigation of the so-called connectome. According to its original meaning, connectome is the map of the all brain neural connections. In this framework, the cognitive processes are not seen as localized in specific loci, but stored and processed in a...
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July 1, 2011
A. Zhok
15 citations
Phenomenology has been defined by Husserl as "theory of the essences of pure phenomena," yet the ontological status of essences in Husserlian phenomenology is far from a settled issue.The late Husserlian emphasis on genetic constitution and the historicity of the lifeworld is not immediately reconcilable with the 'unchangeable' nature that is prima facie attributed to essences.However, the...